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Women's Rights In The 1960s And 1970s

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We set our scene In the late 1960s, stark gender disparity had long overshadowed the women's rights movement. During the 1960s and 1970s, women faced many systemic challenges. In the realm of education, a study conducted by the Pew Research Center in 1967, showed that one-third of young men ages 18-24 were enrolled in college, compared with less than one in five young women in the same age range. This discrepancy was a testament to the limited opportunities available to women seeking higher education during this period. In terms of womens everyday lives in the late 60s and early 70s, a bank could refuse to issue a credit card to an unmarried woman, women were denied birth control and contraceptives unless they were married, and women lacked
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